Abstract
Apolipoprotein E (APOE, protein; ApoE, gene) is a lipid transport protein abundantly present in brain cells. Previous studies have suggested that there is an association between genetic variants of ApoE and susceptibility to cerebral palsy (CP). The purpose of this study was to explore whether the ApoE gene is involved in the etiology of CP in the Chinese population. In this study, 350 CP patients and 242 healthy control children were recruited. Genomic DNA was prepared from venous blood and all five single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in ApoE (rs769446, rs405509, rs121918399, rs429358, and rs190853081) were detected by the MassARRAY platform-based genotyping approach. The SHEsis program was used to analyze the genotyping data, and we systemically analyzed the association of the ApoE SNPs with different subtypes of CP. No significant association was detected between the e4 identified by the C allele of rs429358 and CP, but there were significant differences in allelic frequencies between the CP patients and controls at rs769446 (P = 0.005, P = 0.025 after Bonferroni correction), as well as between the CP patients with preterm birth (<34 gestational weeks) and controls at rs769446 (P = 0.001, P = 0.005 after Bonferroni correction). A haplotype consisting of the five SNPs rs769446(C), rs405509(C), rs121918399(C), rs429358(T), and rs190853081(G) was associated with a decreased risk of CP (P = 0.002 after Bonferroni correction). However, we found no significant association between any of the other three SNPs and CP based on different subgroup analyses. This study provides the first evidence that ApoE gene polymorphisms are a potential risk factor for CP in the Chinese population.
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